BOSTON — Dr. Maryanne C. Bombaugh, an obstetrician/gynecologist at the Community Health Center of Cape Cod who earned her undergraduate degree from Smith College in Northampton, has been elected the new president of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Bombaugh, a Falmouth resident who served 12 years in the United States Army Medical Corps, was elected to a one-year term during the annual meeting of the professional organization whose members number 25,000 physicians and medical students.

Bombaugh, who has served on numerous MMS committees, earned her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and completed her internship at Fort Sam Brooke Army Medical Center in Houston, and her residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she also completed her military service as division chief of gynecology.

Bombaugh holds a master of science degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst’s School of Public Health as well as master of business administration degree from its Isenberg School of Management.

She was awarded a certified physician executive designation from the American Association of Physician Leadership; a graduate certificate in the business of medicine from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; and is a graduate of the executive leadership programs from the Heller School of Management at Brandeis University; the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania; the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Leadership Institute at the University of North Carolina, and the executive leadership program at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Bombaugh is the current chair of MMS’s strategic planning committee, and previous chair of the its legislation committee.

She also serves as a delegate to the American Medical Association from Massachusetts, and was recently appointed by the AMA as a member to its Council on Legislation.